Small Batch - Pickles, Cheese, Chocolate, Spirits, and the Return of Artisanal Foods

Small Batch details the history and changing social implication of artisanal foods, from the days of early American settlers to the present explosion of small-batch and artisanal food businesses. Interviewing over fifty artisanal producers, Cope details the influences, challenges, and evolving identity of these modern craft industries.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
1 Artisanal Foods: From Here to There and Back Again
2 Pickles: Artisans, Craftsmen, and Hip Entrepreneurs
3 Cheese: The Power of the Post-Pastoral
4 Chocolate: The Localness of Exotics
5 Spirits: Looking to the Past to Create the Future
6 Defining the Movement, One Bite at a Time
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Suzanne Cope

Summary

Small Batch details the history and changing social implication of artisanal foods, from the days of early American settlers to the present explosion of small-batch and artisanal food businesses. Interviewing over fifty artisanal producers, Cope details the influences, challenges, and evolving identity of these modern craft industries.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Cope, Cope Suzanne
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2014
• EAN: 9781442227347
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2734-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Rowman & Littlefield Studies i; Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Theme cookery books; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Cultural studies: food and society